Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,343 6,038 7,288
As % of all contract jobs in England 19.00% 23.14% 19.50%
As % of the General category 34.57% 36.19% 34.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,302 4,066 5,083
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 109 233
10th Percentile £15.94 £16.48 £13.23
25th Percentile £19.03 £21.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +28.57% -7.83%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.50 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.70 £28.00
% change year-on-year +7.05% +16.77% -8.96%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,136 16,682 21,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.96% 63.93% 57.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,582 10,711 13,679
10th Percentile £313 £282 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -3.08% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.60% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,746 830 1,776
10th Percentile £14.24 £13.37 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.58 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.39 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.67% -16.74% +9.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.23 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.05 £73.88 £68.82
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.31 £31.76
% change year-on-year +17.19% -14.01% +4.11%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,009 £575 -4.17% 3,132
North of England +2 1,287 £500 +7.53% 852
South East -1 704 £500 -4.76% 1,008
North West +3 669 £475 +5.56% 456
Midlands 0 650 £500 +11.11% 463
Yorkshire 0 574 £525 +7.69% 295
West Midlands +1 479 £500 +2.15% 264
South West -3 381 £525 - 354
East of England +6 200 £513 -10.87% 258
East Midlands 0 164 £488 +14.71% 198
North East -22 45 £500 +13.64% 111
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 291 (3.49%) Confluence
2 207 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 81 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 67 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 48 (0.58%) Apache
6 44 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.34%) SAS
8 27 (0.32%) CMS
9 20 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 14 (0.17%) IIS
12 13 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.13%) Camunda
13 11 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 8 (0.096%) Appian
15 6 (0.072%) Hyperledger
16 5 (0.060%) WebLogic
17 4 (0.048%) WordPress
18 3 (0.036%) Kentico
Applications
1 450 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 182 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 155 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 141 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 101 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 58 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.060%) Sketch
9 4 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.048%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.048%) Trello
10 3 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.036%) Notion
11 2 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 307 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 111 (1.33%) NetSuite
3 94 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
4 80 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
5 73 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
6 71 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 44 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
8 42 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
9 41 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
10 37 (0.44%) Aladdin
11 36 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
12 33 (0.40%) SAP FI
13 27 (0.32%) Workday HCM
14 25 (0.30%) SAP CO
15 23 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
15 23 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
16 22 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
16 22 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
17 21 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
17 21 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,337 (16.03%) Azure
2 968 (11.60%) AWS
3 569 (6.82%) Power Platform
4 426 (5.11%) GCP
5 286 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
6 281 (3.37%) SaaS
7 251 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
8 223 (2.67%) GitHub
9 186 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
10 177 (2.12%) Snowflake
11 165 (1.98%) Entra ID
12 130 (1.56%) Serverless
13 109 (1.31%) Amazon S3
14 99 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 98 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
16 92 (1.10%) dbt
17 88 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
18 86 (1.03%) OCI
19 84 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
20 81 (0.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 154 (1.85%) Firewall
2 132 (1.58%) Network Security
3 72 (0.86%) DNS
4 71 (0.85%) VPN
5 56 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 53 (0.64%) WAN
7 40 (0.48%) BGP
8 35 (0.42%) SSL
9 32 (0.38%) LAN
10 31 (0.37%) DHCP
10 31 (0.37%) HTTP
11 28 (0.34%) OSPF
12 27 (0.32%) Multicast
13 23 (0.28%) MPLS
14 21 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
14 21 (0.25%) Internet
15 19 (0.23%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.20%) VSAN
17 16 (0.19%) DMZ
17 16 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 489 (5.86%) Power BI
2 242 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 231 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 167 (2.00%) Metadata
5 164 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
6 147 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 125 (1.50%) Tableau
8 119 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 82 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
11 65 (0.78%) Big Data
11 65 (0.78%) Oracle Database
12 59 (0.71%) BigQuery
13 51 (0.61%) MongoDB
14 49 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
15 47 (0.56%) Power Query
16 44 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 43 (0.52%) Delta Lake
18 40 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
19 39 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 597 (7.16%) JIRA
2 216 (2.59%) Git
3 158 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 91 (1.09%) GitLab
5 54 (0.65%) JUnit
6 48 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 42 (0.50%) Selenium
8 28 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 27 (0.32%) Postman
10 24 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 23 (0.28%) ERwin
11 23 (0.28%) REST Assured
11 23 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.25%) MLflow
13 20 (0.24%) Maven
14 17 (0.20%) TeamCity
15 16 (0.19%) Zephyr
16 15 (0.18%) Hudson
17 14 (0.17%) Gradle
17 14 (0.17%) Mockito
General
1 2,439 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 1,565 (18.76%) Banking
3 1,132 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 476 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 385 (4.61%) Legal
6 337 (4.04%) Financial Institution
7 320 (3.84%) Investment Banking
8 313 (3.75%) Front Office
9 282 (3.38%) Retail
10 277 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
11 213 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
12 197 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
13 158 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 153 (1.83%) Local Government
15 142 (1.70%) Manufacturing
16 135 (1.62%) Billing
16 135 (1.62%) General Ledger
17 125 (1.50%) Marketing
18 123 (1.47%) Law
19 117 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,218 (14.60%) Analyst
2 923 (11.06%) Senior
3 888 (10.64%) Lead
4 835 (10.01%) Developer
5 799 (9.58%) Architect
6 619 (7.42%) Business Analyst
6 619 (7.42%) Project Manager
7 536 (6.42%) Consultant
8 311 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
9 286 (3.43%) Data Engineer
10 214 (2.57%) Senior Manager
11 193 (2.31%) Financial Analyst
12 176 (2.11%) Data Analyst
13 175 (2.10%) Accountant
14 167 (2.00%) Java Developer
15 165 (1.98%) IT Manager
15 165 (1.98%) Programme Manager
16 163 (1.95%) Finance Manager
16 163 (1.95%) Software Engineer
17 151 (1.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (3.09%) REST
2 257 (3.08%) .NET
3 248 (2.97%) React
4 232 (2.78%) Kafka
5 181 (2.17%) Middleware
6 180 (2.16%) Oracle Fusion
7 153 (1.83%) Spring
8 144 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 119 (1.43%) RESTful
10 109 (1.31%) Redux
11 106 (1.27%) Node.js
12 105 (1.26%) PySpark
13 83 (0.99%) AngularJS
14 79 (0.95%) JSON
15 72 (0.86%) OAuth
16 63 (0.76%) XML
17 59 (0.71%) CSS
17 59 (0.71%) Pandas
18 58 (0.70%) .NET Framework
19 56 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 399 (4.78%) Onboarding
2 363 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 352 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 228 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 203 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 188 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 161 (1.93%) Fixed Income
7 161 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 155 (1.86%) Derivative
9 149 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 145 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
11 141 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 123 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 118 (1.41%) Equities
14 114 (1.37%) AI Agents
15 110 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
16 101 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
17 99 (1.19%) Public Cloud
18 94 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
19 90 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 290 (3.48%) Windows
2 253 (3.03%) Linux
3 135 (1.62%) Unix
4 63 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 37 (0.44%) Solaris
6 34 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 34 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 32 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (0.37%) zOS
9 29 (0.35%) Android
10 22 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.20%) AIX
12 8 (0.096%) VMS
13 7 (0.084%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (0.084%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.060%) HPUX
14 5 (0.060%) SUSE
14 5 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.048%) MVS
16 3 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,826 (21.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,727 (20.70%) Agile
3 1,168 (14.00%) Migration
4 1,082 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
5 989 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 930 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 909 (10.90%) AI
8 904 (10.84%) DevOps
9 876 (10.50%) CI/CD
10 843 (10.10%) Analytics
11 817 (9.79%) ERP
12 778 (9.33%) Decision-Making
13 713 (8.55%) Roadmaps
14 706 (8.46%) Validation
15 701 (8.40%) Project Management
16 692 (8.29%) Data Modelling
17 643 (7.71%) User Acceptance Testing
18 615 (7.37%) Change Management
19 611 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
20 546 (6.54%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,149 (13.77%) SQL
2 1,029 (12.33%) Python
3 563 (6.75%) Java
4 362 (4.34%) C#
5 246 (2.95%) TypeScript
6 237 (2.84%) JavaScript
7 199 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 80 (0.96%) Bash
9 73 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 72 (0.86%) C++
11 70 (0.84%) Go
11 70 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 57 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 56 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 47 (0.56%) Scala
15 46 (0.55%) VBA
16 37 (0.44%) Bicep
17 32 (0.38%) Apex Code
18 30 (0.36%) Kotlin
19 28 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 666 (7.98%) Degree
2 657 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 469 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 213 (2.55%) PMP
5 200 (2.40%) ACCA
6 184 (2.21%) PMI Certification
7 176 (2.11%) CIMA
8 154 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 145 (1.74%) CISSP
10 123 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 96 (1.15%) DV Cleared
12 82 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 81 (0.97%) CISM
14 75 (0.90%) Master's Degree
15 64 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
16 49 (0.59%) AWS Certification
17 46 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
18 39 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 37 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 31 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 525 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 361 (4.33%) QA
3 310 (3.72%) PMO
4 285 (3.42%) GDPR
5 156 (1.87%) NIST
6 128 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 109 (1.31%) IFRS
8 100 (1.20%) SLA
9 89 (1.07%) GRC
10 88 (1.05%) Accessibility
11 77 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 61 (0.73%) GAAP
13 60 (0.72%) PCI DSS
14 54 (0.65%) ISO 20022
15 36 (0.43%) NCSC
15 36 (0.43%) SEPA
15 36 (0.43%) Solvency II
16 29 (0.35%) PSD2
17 28 (0.34%) SOC 2
18 26 (0.31%) COBIT
System Software
1 256 (3.07%) Docker
2 178 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 55 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.31%) vSphere
6 19 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.18%) RACF
9 13 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.14%) NFS
11 10 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.072%) GPFS
12 6 (0.072%) KVM
13 5 (0.060%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.036%) GridGain
15 3 (0.036%) IAG
15 3 (0.036%) SRDF
16 2 (0.024%) ACF2
16 2 (0.024%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 376 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 264 (3.16%) Terraform
3 140 (1.68%) Ansible
4 78 (0.93%) Grafana
5 67 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 61 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 50 (0.60%) SCCM
8 42 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (0.29%) Control-M
10 18 (0.22%) vRealize
11 16 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.17%) Nessus
13 13 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 13 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
13 13 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
14 12 (0.14%) Argo
15 11 (0.13%) CASB
15 11 (0.13%) Puppet
16 10 (0.12%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 1,073 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 675 (8.09%) Oracle
3 647 (7.76%) SAP
4 310 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 259 (3.10%) Databricks
6 204 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 185 (2.22%) Google
8 128 (1.53%) Workday
9 112 (1.34%) VMware
10 109 (1.31%) Splunk
11 104 (1.25%) IBM
12 95 (1.14%) Cisco
13 90 (1.08%) CyberArk
14 60 (0.72%) OpenAI
15 58 (0.70%) Citrix
16 56 (0.67%) Bloomberg
17 54 (0.65%) Sage
18 49 (0.59%) Ariba
18 49 (0.59%) Murex
19 48 (0.58%) Informatica